Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
27
2019

Mathematical Conversations

A curious family of curves
Amie Wilkinson
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

I will construct a family of curves in the square that illustrates the interplay between hyperbolic dynamics and pathology.

Mar
27
2019

Emerging Topics working group

Coherence and lattices
Matthew Stover
4:00pm|West Building Lecture Hall

Abstract: I will survey (in)coherence of lattices in semisimple Lie groups, with a view toward open problems and connections with the geometry of locally symmetric spaces. Particular focus will be placed on rank one lattices, where I will discuss...

Mar
27
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Multiplicity One Conjecture in Min-max theory (continued)
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

I will present a proof with some substantial details of the Multiplicity One Conjecture in Min-max theory, raised by Marques and Neves. It says that in a closed manifold of dimension between 3 and 7 with a bumpy metric, the min-max minimal...

Mar
26
2019

Emerging Topics working group

One-relator groups, non-positive immersions and coherence
Henry Wilton
4:00pm|West Building Lecture Hall

Abstract: There seems to be an analogy between the classes of fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds and of one-relator groups. (Indeed, many 3-manifold groups are also one-relator groups.) For instance, Dehn’s Lemma for 3-manifolds (proved by...

Mar
26
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

A mountain pass theorem for minimal hypersurfaces with fixed boundary
Rafael Montezuma
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In this talk, we will be concerned with the existence of a third embedded minimal hypersurface spanning a closed submanifold B contained in the boundary of a compact Riemannian manifold with convex boundary, when it is known a priori the existence...

Mar
26
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

$alpha$-harmonic maps between spheres
Tobias Lamm
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In a famous paper, Sacks and Uhlenbeck introduced a perturbation of the Dirichlet energy, the so-called $\alpha$-energy $E_\alpha$, $\alpha > 1$, to construct non-trivial harmonic maps of the two-sphere in manifolds with a non-contractible universal...